No, that was just the rationale given for seizing the power. They are not limited to only regulating the internet in those cases now that they have taken the power.
When’s the last time you remember a bureaucracy not exercising their power to the greatest possible extent that they could get away with?
I confess that my personal perspective on this is that worrying about how it will affect our lives in two years is akin to a German in 1944 worrying about how Hitler’s new law is going to affect them in 1947.
It will get much worse before the Lord’s return, which is obviously imminent. Sanity has left the world, much as it had in 1939, only a hundred times worse. There will be no “easy” way out of this.
We will all be forced with very personally difficult decisions over the next few years and the difficulty will grow exponentially.